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Since its establishment in 1964, the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History), with its three departments, has devoted itself to investigating the history of law in Europe and beyond. According the Max Planck Open Access Policy and the Berlin Declaration of 2003 (https://openaccess.mpg.de), the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History makes available (via open access) as much of its research and findings as possible...



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by Leticia Pérez Puente
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Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2023-02 Diezmo eclesiástico / Ecclesiastical tithe (DCH) Leticia Pérez Puente Spanish Abstract : Este estudio rastrea las raíces medievales del derecho canónico indiano, para mostrar cómo los temas de juicio y jurisdicción, derecho y justicia se han ido configurando en un diálogo constante entre la ciencia jurídica y la teología moral. Las situaciones institucionales muy peculiares que experimentó el...
Topics: Tithe, Latin America, financial administration, canon law, royal law
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Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2023-01 Juicio / Judgment and procedure (DCH) Orazio Condorelli Spanish Abstract : Este estudio rastrea las raíces medievales del derecho canónico indiano, para mostrar cómo los temas de juicio y jurisdicción, derecho y justicia se han ido configurando en un diálogo constante entre la ciencia jurídica y la teología moral. Las situaciones institucionales muy peculiares que experimentó el derecho indiano...
Topics: Trial, ius commune, derecho indiano, ecclesiastical and secular jurisdictions
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2022-17 Legal History as an Observation of Historical Regimes of Normativity Thomas Duve In the last few years, the research at the Department “Historical Regimes of Normativity” at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory has increasingly been guided by two conceptual ideas: the analysis of “legal history as a history of the translation of knowledge of normativity” and the integration...
Topics: legal history, global history, regime theory, historiography
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by Vogenauer, Stefan
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2020-04 Sources of Law and Legal Method in Comparative Law Stefan Vogenauer published earlier in: Mathias Reimann/Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (2nd edn), Oxford University Press 2019, p. 878-901, ISBN 9780198810230 Abstract: Sources of law serve to separate the province of law from the realm of non-law. Only propositions that are derived from a valid source of law are genuinely legal...
Topics: legal sources, legal method, comparative law, legal propositions, legislation, case law
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
by Fiocchi Malaspina, Elisabetta
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Global Perspectives on Legal History - Volume 8 L'eterno ritorno del Droit des gens di Emer de Vattel (secc. XVIII-XIX) L'impatto sulla cultura giuridica in prospettiva globale Fiocchi Malaspina, Elisabetta (ed.) The numerous editions and early translations produced throughout the eighteenth century enabled the broad dissemination of Emer de Vattel’s juridical-political work Droit des gens . This book investigates the global impact of the Droit des gens with regard to the different political...
Topics: Emer de Vattel, Droit des gens, law of nations, natural law, history of international law,...
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by Pfeifer, Guido; Grotkamp, Nadine
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Global Perspectives on Legal History - Volume 9 Außergerichtliche Konfliktlösung in der Antike Beispiele aus drei Jahrtausenden Guido Pfeifer, Nadine Grotkamp (eds.) Antiquity is often utilized as a reference to provide a historical dimension for contemporary phenomena. This also holds true for the prevailing scientific discourse on alternative or adequate remedies of dispute resolution. In this context, historical perspectives seem to be in vogue as narratives to legitimize one or another...
Topics: Legal history, Rechtsgeschichte, Antiquity, Antike, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Alternative...
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by Pamela Alejandra Cacciavillani
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Global Perspectives on Legal History - Volume 18 Celebrar lo imposible. El Código Civil en el régimen jurídico de la propiedad: Córdoba entre fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX Pamela Alejandra Cacciavillani The book examines the challenges encountered by a national codification enterprise in the process of its implementation in the province of Córdoba, Argentina at the end of the 19th century. The study’s hypothesis is that the enactment of the Civil Code and its subsequent entry...
Topics: Córdoba-Argentina, federalism, indigenous communities, Civil Code/codification, Land...
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 24 Gerhard Dilcher The Germanists and the Historical School of Law: German Legal Science between Romanticism, Realism, and Rationalization Abstract The essay, originally written in German as an introduction to a volume of collected papers, shows the influence of the Historical School of Law on legal, historical and social sciences in Germany throughout the 19th and even 20th centuries – a time...
Topics: legal history, realism, rationalization, germanists, historical school of law, german legal...
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 27 Robert C. Schwaller The Spiritual Conquest of Marriage: How the Holy Office and Council of Trent Attempted to Reform the Laity of New Spain Abstract The Council of Trent’s reform of marriage attempted to give the Church greater oversight over marriage and rein in popular misconceptions about the sacrament. In colonial Mexico, this shift in the definition of marriage coincided with the...
Topics: Marriage, race, Council of Trent, Mexico, laity
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by Duve, Thomas
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Global Perspectives on Legal History Entanglements in Legal History: Conceptual Approaches < Thomas Duve (ed.) Legal History presents a broad panorama of historical processes that trigger theoretical reflections on legal transfers and legal transplants and on the problem of the reception and assimilation laws and other modes of normativity. In this volume, legal historians across the globe reflect on their analytical traditions and present case studies in order to discuss how entangled...
Topics: global history, legal history, Transnational Law, Legal Theory, Empires and Law, Legal Transfer,...
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by Canning, Joseph
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 01 Joseph Canning "Papacy and Political Theory" For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2022-04 Tra lex e ius: le leggi razziste del fascismo e le amnistie postbelliche. Una nota anche bibliografica (Between lex and ius: fascist "racial laws" and postwar amnisties. Also a bibliographical account) Mario G. Losano Italian Abstract : L'Italia eliminò la discriminazione delle minoranze ebraiche e valdesi con lo Statuto Albertino del 1848: però nel 1938 il fascismo emanò le "leggi...
Topics: Antisemitism, Azara Amnesty, Fascism, Racial Laws (Italy), Togliatti Amnesty
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by Schuppert, Gunnar Folke
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Global Perspectives on Legal History - Volume 10 The World of Rules A Somewhat Different Measurement of the World Gunnar Folke Schuppert This book takes a stand against the narrowing focus of (German) jurisprudence on state law, rooted in the history of the territorially organised nation state. In the shadow of this tradition, state(-hood) law was only conceived of as state law. However, a gradual decoupling of state and law is observable – not least because of globalisation – which...
Topics: jurisprudence, Legal history, Rechtsgeschichte, GPLH, state law, plurality of normative orders, the...
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by Duve, Thomas
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2013-06 European Legal History - Global Perspectives Working Paper for the Colloquium, European Normativity - Global Historical Perspectives' (Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, September, 2nd-4th, 2013) Thomas Duve (ed.) During the last decades, we have learned from authors like Helmut Coing, Franz Wieacker, Harold Berman, Peter Stein, Manlio Bellomo, Paolo Prodi, – to name but a few – that one of...
Topics: legal history, European Legal History, Global History, Transnationale History, Postcolonial...
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2012-04 In Defense of Commercial Capitalism: Lessius, Partnerships and the Contractus Trinus Wim Decock (ed.) In telling the history of commercial law and capitalism, traditional scholarship has often neglected the abundant literature on commerce and contracts written by Catholic theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To shed light on this ‘hidden story’ in the history of commercial law and...
Topics: legal history, commercial law, moral theology, capitalism, Antwerp
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 01 Philippe Sturmel "L’école historique française du droit a-t-elle existé?" Abstract Jourdan ou Klimrath, émules français de Savigny dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle, sont des noms que les historiens du droit connaissent bien. Mais cela a-t-il toujours été le cas et surtout quelle a été la portée de leur action scientifique au XIXe siècle? Ce sont ces questions...
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 22 Thomas Duve European Normativity – Global-Historical Perspectives Introductory remarks For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
Topics: european normativity, global-historical perspective, legal history
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by Brutti, Massimo; Somma, Alessandro
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Global Perspectives on Legal History - Volume 11 Diritto: storia e comparazione Nuovi propositi per un binomio antico Massimo Brutti, Alessandro Somma (eds.) Comparative law and the history of law are traditionally devoted to expanding the context of legal rules and legal institutions. Comparison involves history, as the well-known motto proclaims, but history also involves comparison. Both disciplines are in fact interested in deepening the space-time coordinates of law as a social phenomenon,...
Topics: Legal History, Rechtsgeschichte, Comparative Law, History of Law, GPLH
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by Bordignon, Fabiane
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2020-14 Donación (DCH) (Donation (DCH)) Fabiane Bordignon Spanish Abstract: Este artículo trata el contrato de donación para el derecho canónico, especialmente para el contexto de las indias. La donación gozaba de considerable relevancia puesto que era una práctica común en el este período, muchas veces realizada en favor de Dios y de la Iglesia. La preservación de los bienes de la Iglesia, la responsabilidad de...
Topics: contract on ecclesiastical goods, donation, canon law, early modern hispanic America and Philippines
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by Roberts, Simon
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 01 Simon Roberts "Against a Systemic Legal History" Abstract This paper questions the resort to systems theory as the foundation of an evolutionary legal history. In particular, the theoretical legacy of Niklas Luhmann upon which Marie Theres Fögen proposes to draw seems to have limited application outside a context in which advanced system differentiation is present. Although (like...
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 23 Thomas Duve und Peter Oestmann Normengeschichte, Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Praxisgeschichte. Drei Blickwinkel auf das Recht der Vergangenheit For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
Topics: normengeschichte, wissenschaftsgeschichte, praxisgeschichte, recth der vergangenheit, legal...
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 25 Ralf Seinecke Rechtspluralismus in der Rechtsgeschichte For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
Topics: legal pluralism, legal history, customary law, medieval law, methodology in legal history
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by Aragoneses, Alfons
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2016-05 Convivencia and Filosefardismo in Spanish Nation-building Alfons Aragoneses (ed.) The paper describes the historical trajectory of filosefardismo and references to convivencia in Spain and its reflection in the legal and political culture and the Nation-building process. It considers not the presence of Judaism in contemporary Spanish law and society but, following the suggestions of David Nirenberg, how the...
Topics: Convivencia Nation-building, Filosefardismo, Anti-Semitism, Legal Culture
Global Perspectives on Legal History - Volume 13 Normatividades e instituciones eclesiásticas en el Nuevo Reino de Granada, siglos XVI–XIX Pilar Mejía, Otto Danwerth, Benedetta Albani (eds.) Resulta incuestionable la importancia de las instituciones eclesiásticas y de sus actores para la formación de los órdenes normativos en Ibero-América durante la temprana edad moderna. No obstante, la historiografía jurídica, a causa de su fuerte impronta legalista y estatalista, se limitó por...
Topics: Legal History, Historia de Ibero-América (siglos XVI-XIX), Rechtsgeschichte, GPLH
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2019-02 Eine globale Ideengeschichte in der Sprache des Rechts (A Global History of Ideas in the Language of Law) Gunnar Folke Schuppert German Abstract: Ziel des Artikels ist es, die Bedeutung der Sprache des Rechts als 'language of politics' im Rahmen einer globalen Ideengeschichte herauszuarbeiten. Nach einer Darstellung der Funktion der Sprache des Rechts als ideengeschichtlich relevanter Sprache werden einmal die...
Topics: language of law as language of politics, global history of ideas, natural law, international law,...
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by Schuppert, Gunnar Folke
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History - research paper series No.2016-01 The World of Rules: Eine etwas andere Vermessung der Welt Gunnar Folke Schuppert (ed.) The book positions itself against the narrowing focus of (the German) jurisprudence on state law. This is a narrowing, which find its explication in the development of the territorially organised nation state, a type of state in whose understanding of state(hood) law can only be thought of as state law. However, what can be...
Topics: Decoupling of state and law, normative pluralism, variety of law producers, plurality of...
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2012-02 Power and Law in Enlightened Absolutism – Carl Gottlieb Svarez' Theoretical and Practical Approach Milan Kuhli (ed.) The term Enlightened Absolutism reflects a certain tension between its two components. This tension is in a way a continuation of the dichotomy between power on one hand and law on the other. The present paper shall provide an analysis of these two concepts from the perspective of Carl Gottlieb...
Topics: Enlightened Absolutism, Legal History, Carl Gottlieb Svarez, Johann Heinrich Casimir von Carmer,...
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2016-08 Dignity and Cessio Bonorum in Early-Modern Dutch Learned Legal Literature Wouter Druwé (ed.) Imprisonment for debt was a common sanction in the early modern period. Through the learned legal institute of the cessio bonorum, or its customary legal alternatives, insolvent debtors could avoid the shame of prison. Nevertheless, in order to discourage irresponsible administration of one's patrimony, local customs and...
Topics: Cessio bonorum, Insolvency, Dignity, Low Countries, Ius Commune
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2014-08 Entanglements in Legal History. Introductory Remarks Thomas Duve (ed.) Legal history presents a broad panorama of historical processes that trigger theoretical reflections on legal transfers and legal transplants and on the problem of the reception and assimilation of new laws. The paper gives an introductory overview about the state of art in research on global entanglements in legal history as reflected in the...
Topics: global history, legal history, Transnational Law, Legal Theory, Empires and Law, Legal Transfer,...
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2020-02 The Salamanca School on Slavery: From Naturalism to Culture and Awareness Francisco Castilla Urbano Abstract: This article examines the reflections on slavery by a group of 16th-century scholastics considered members or followers of the so-called School of Salamanca. I show that a gradual process of critical awareness developed regarding both the concept of natural slavery and its justifications. After pointing to...
Topics: School of Salamanca, sixteenth century, natural slavery, Indian slavery, African slavery
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2021-02 Las repúblicas municipales y su proyección en los procesos de independencia. Río de la Plata, primera mitad del siglo XIX (Municipal Republics and its Imprint on Independence Processes. Rio de la Plata, First Half of the Nineteenth Century.) Alejandro Aguero Spanish Abstract : Los estudios sobre el republicanismo en la historia Latinoamericana han tenido un notable desarrollo en los últimos años. No...
Topics: Republicanism, Municipal Governments, Spanish Colonial Legal Tradition, Rio de Plata-19th century,...
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 06 Thomas Wetzstein "Dead Man Talking" For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 02 Roy Garré "Haute Couture" For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 22 Mario Ascheri Processo romanico-canonico: una ›eccellenza‹ attraverso il tempo? For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 28 Wolfgang Ernst Knut Wolfgang Nörr in der Historiographie des Prozessrechts [Knut Wolfgang Nörr’s Role in the Historiography of Civil Procedure] This contribution, a speech given at the memorial conference on 12 April 2019, revisits the works of Knut Wolfgang Nörr (1935–2018) pertaining to the historiography of civil procedure. They span half a century during which comparative research...
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 28 Jan Thiessen Die Republik der Wirtschaft 3.0 [The German Republic of Business 3.0] Abstract :  When Knut Wolfgang Nörr completed the second volume of his opus magnum »Die Republik der Wirtschaft«, he declined to continue his chronicles of German economic-legal history up to the present. Instead, Nörr insisted on a certain distance between historians and their chosen eras of study. This...
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 28 Jan Schröder Im Gedenken an Knut Wolfgang Nörr: Einleitung [In Memory of Knut Wolfgang Nörr: Introduction] For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit:  http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
Topics: Rg-Online, Rechtsgeschichte, Legal History, Zeitschrift des Max-Planck-Instituts für europäische...
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 27 Cecilia Cristellon The Roman Congregations and the Application of the Tametsi as an Instrument of Their Policies Towards Mixed Marriages in Europe (1563–1798) Abstract The article analyses how the decrees of the Council of Trent regarding marriage were used by the Church of Rome as a tool to contrast mixed marriages in Early Modern Europe. It investigates how these decrees were evaded by...
Topics: Mixed marriages, Tametsi, Roman Congregations, Netherlands
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2021-06 „Sacrum Palatium“. Eine in der Gegenwart missbrauchte Konstruktion des 9. Jahrhunderts ('Sacrum Palatium'. A 9th Century Construction Abused in the Present Day) Caspar Ehlers German Abstract : In dem kurzen Beitrag geht es um die Einordnung des Begriffspaares „Sacrum Palatium“ in die frühmittelalterlich-karolingischen Quellen. Es wird dessen Verwendung anhand der überschaubaren Anzahl von...
Topics: Royal Palaces, Carolingian Empire, Louis the Pious, Hinkmar of Reims, Conceptual history
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2022-08 Naturrecht und naturrechtliche Methode des „mos Gottingensis“ an der Göttinger Aufklärungsuniversität „Georgia Augusta“ (1734-1800) / Natural law and the natural law method of the "mos Gottingensis" at the University of the Enlightenment "Georgia Augusta“ (1734-1800) Heinz Mohnhaupt German Abstract :Aufklärung und Naturrecht sind wandelbare Begriffe. In den Gründungszielen der...
Topics: Enlightenment, natural law, legal practice, system, legal education
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Global Perspectives on Legal History - Volume 4 Legislar en la América hispánica en la temprana edad moderna Procesos y características de la producción de los Decretos del Tercer Concilio Provincial Mexicano (1585) Osvaldo Rodolfo Moutin The decrees of the Third Mexican Provincial Council, celebrated in 1585, had an important impact on the organization of the colonial Church and Spanish-American society, from the time they were published in 1622 until the nineteenth century. This research...
Topics: Derecho Canónico, Historia del Derecho, Rechtsgeschichte, Tercer Concilio Provincial Mexicano,...
Global Perspectives on Legal History - Volume 14 Le tre costituzioni pacifiste. Il rifiuto della guerra nelle costituzioni di Giappone, Italia e Germania Mario G. Losano I tre Stati sconfitti nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale inclusero nelle loro costituzioni postbelliche, tuttora vigenti, un articolo che vieta il ricorso alla guerra non difensiva. Per Giappone, Italia e Germania la prima parte del volume ripercorre i difficili anni tra la fine della guerra e l’inizio della pace (con i processi...
Topics: Legal History, Rechtsgeschichte, GPLH, Verfassung, Friedlich, Krieg, Japan, Deutschland, Italien,...
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2022-06 Law and Colonialism in China: A German Perspective Luigi Nuzzo The thematic horizon of this article is the colonial expansion of Western powers in China in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. The focus is on the legal strategies deployed by Germany when it occupied the bay of Jiaozhou and obtained a settlement in Tianjin. This episode illuminates Western strategies of colonial governance and the...
Topics: International Law, German Colonialism, Tianjin, Jiaozhou, German Colonialism, Tianjin, Jiaozhou,...
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2022-03 Consideraciones generales sobre el derecho procesal canónico en Hispanoamérica y Filipinas (s. XVI-XVIII) (DCH) (General Considerations on Canonical Procedural Law in Spanish America and the Philippines (16th-18th centuries) (DCH)) Faustino Martinez Spanish Abstract : Este trabajo introductorio a las voces publicadas en el DCH, sobre materia procesal en la concepción canónica, pretende ofrecer los...
Topics: Ius Commune, Canon Law, Justice, Procedural Law, Trial
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Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2022-20 Estupradores / Rapists (DCH) Vanessa Massuchetto Spanish Abstract : Según la tradición católica tridentina en la temprana edad moderna, aquellos hombres que tuvieran relaciones carnales con una mujer virgen u honesta (de manera consentida o violenta) sin pasar por el sacramento del matrimonio incurrían en el crimen de estupro, siendo llamados estupradores. La normativa pertinente tenía su punto de...
Topics: History of sexualities, Sins of lust, Moral order, Crimes contra naturam
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 27 Marya Svetlana T. Camacho Marriage in the Philippines After the Council of Trent (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries) Abstract The evangelisation of the Philippines took place after the Council of Trent; hence, from the beginning matrimony was governed by its canons and decrees. Until the provincial councils held in the 1770s, the Philippine Church followed the directives of the Third Mexican...
Topics: Marriage, Philippines, canon law, indigenous custom, colonial society
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2013-03 'Historia literaria iuris' Beispiele juristischer Literaturgeschichten im 18, Jahrhundert (Historia Literaria Iuris: Examples of Juridical Literary Histories in the 18th Century) Heinz Mohnhaupt (ed.) The article "Historia literaria iuris. Examples of juridical literary histories in the 18th century“ evolved in the context of a colloquium on the various disciplines in the "Historia literaria“ which...
Topics: legal science, formation of disciplines, libraries, organisation of knowledge, book production
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2018-05 (subsidia et instrumenta) Regulierte Selbstregulierung in rechtshistorischer Perspektive Peter Collin German Abstract: Die vorliegende Publikation macht den Leser mit etlichen Feldern »regulierter Selbstregulierung« vertraut, also mit Regelungskomplexen, in denen staatliche und nichtstaatliche Regulierungsaktivitäten ineinandergreifen. Das Untersuchungsgebiet ist Deutschland, der Untersuchungszeitraum das 19....
Topics: governance, interventionist state, private regulation, normative orders, multinormativity
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2015-04 Las Instituciones De Seguridad Y Del Castigo En Argentina Y América Latina. Recorrido Historiográfico, Desafíos Y Propuestas De Diálogo Con La Historia Del Derecho. (Penal and Law Enforcement Institutions in Argentina and Latin America. Historiographical Paths, Challenges and Proposals of Dialogue with Legal History.) Osvaldo Barreneche (ed.) This article deals with the history of law enforcement and penal...
Topics: History, Latin America, Police, Prison, Law
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2018-13 Les voyages du droit du Portugal à Rome Le ‘Manual de confessores’ de Martín de Azpilcueta (1492 –1586) et ses traductions Manuela Bragagnolo French Abstract: Le « Manual de confessores » du célèbre canoniste espagnol Martín de Azpilcueta (1492-1586) fut un véritable best seller au XVIe siècle. Il joua un rôle fondamental dans la construction du savoir normatif et cela non seulement en Europe mais,...
Topics: Translation, Legal History, Early Modern Legal Knowledge, Martín de Azpilcueta, Epitomisation
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2016-06 Das Erbe des Korporativismus in der politisch-rechtlichen Kultur der italienischen Nachkriegszeit (The Heritage of Corporatism in Second Post-war Legal and Political Italian Culture) Maurizio Cau (ed.) The day after the fascist regime’s breakdown, the corporatism’s doctrinal heritage was overcome by the “clearing the past” politics carried out by the Italian political and intellectual world, looking for a...
Topics: Corporatism, Second post-war, Transition, political and legal culture, Democracy
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2020-24 Contumacia (DCH) (Contumacy (DCH)) Rafael Diego-Fernández Sotelo Spanish Abstract : La contumacia era un concepto polivalente sobre el que los diferentes tipos de normatividades concernientes tenían que definir sus alcances y significados. La voz contumacia se encontraba indisolublemente unida tanto al concepto de rebeldía, como a los de pertinacia y desobediencia, resultando ser un agravante en una serie de...
Topics: Rebellion, disobedience, sin, crime, Indians
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2020-06 Trueque (DCH) (Barter (DCH)) Pol Rene Moutin Spanish Abstract : El artículo estudia el contrato de trueque en Hispanoamérica y Filipinas entre los siglos XVI y XVIII. Aborda el trueque de cosas propiamente dichas, el cambio de divisas, y por último, la permuta de cosas de la Iglesia y de beneficios eclesiásticos. Se analiza, dónde y quiénes podían trocar sus productos. Se estudia qué herramientas podían...
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2019-13 Juramentos (DCH) (Oaths (DCH)) Samuel Barbosa Abstract Spanish Abstract: El artículo estudia las diversas modalidades de juramento extrajudiciales e judiciales en Hispanoamérica y Filipinas durante el período colonial. Bajo el aspecto teológico, el juramento era un acto de reverencia a Dios. Bajo el aspecto jurídico-canónico, el juramento tenía la finalidad de poner fin a las controversias. Debido a su...
Topics: Oaths, Jurisdiction, Contracts, Canon Law, West Indies
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 03 Richard H. Helmholz "Law as State Builder" For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 02 Michael Stolleis "Die Wahrheit des Holocaust" For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 06 Manfred Aschke "DDR-Geschichten" For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 24 Lena Foljanty Translators: Mediators of Legal Transfers For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 23 Julian Krüper Die Verfassung der Berliner Republik Abstarct Contemporary constitutional history faces a methodological dilemma: Historiography traditionally calls for scientific dissociation, both temporal and individual, from its objects of research. Yet, changes in constitutional normativity are typically of an incremental nature and can best be studied through a close approach of the...
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 24 Rodrigo Míguez Núñez Indigenous Customary Law in a Civil Law Context: Latin America and the Chilean Case Abstract Based on anthropological and historical considerations, this paper analyses the evolution of the relationship between Western law and aboriginal custom in Latin America by focusing on the most tangible and problematic issue in customary law: land tenure. My aim is to provide a...
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 25 Miloš Vec Zuviel der Ehre! For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 26 Michael Stolleis "Lehrmeister Amerika" [America the Schoolmaster] For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 21 Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral El estudio del Derecho internacional en el corto siglo XIX español Abstract Este trabajo proporciona una introducción al cultivo ius-internacionalista en la España del siglo XIX. La primera parte del mismo examina la supresión en España de los estudios del Derecho de Gentes a finales del siglo XVIII y apunta a algunos de sus desarrollos durante el primer...
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 28 Alexander Engel Johannes W. Flume Bullen, Bären – und Lämmer? Auseinandersetzungen um die Börsenfreiheit und die Terminspekulation des »unberufenen Publikums« im 19. Jahrhundert in den 1770er und 1780er Jahren [Bulls, Bears – and Lambs? Arguments about Amateur Speculation and Public Accessto 19th-century German Exchanges] Abstract :  In late 19th-century Europe, stock and commodity...
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 28 Tamar Herzog Germanic or Roman? Western European Narratives of Legal Origins Abstract : For many centuries, the question whether law was Germanic or Roman in origins preoccupied jurists throughout Western Europe. Rather than assuming convergence, entanglements, and mixing, as would often be the case today, from the 17th and into the 20th century, these jurists set out to prove that their...
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by Mariana Dias Paes, Raquel Razente Sirotti, Juelma de Matos Ngãla, Maysa Espindola Souza
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Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2022-13 Os processos judiciais e a escrita da história em África: Uma bibliografia (Court Cases and the Writing of African History: A Bibliography) Mariana Dias Paes, Raquel Razente Sirotti, Juelma de Matos Ngãla, Maysa Espindola Souza Portuguese Abstract : Esta bibliografia é parte integrante da série de vídeos “Os processos judiciais e a escrita da história em África”, produzida no âmbito do projeto...
Topics: Court Cases, Legal History, Africa, Portuguese Empire, Colonial Archive
Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory No. 29 Manuela Bragagnolo Books in Motion and Normative Knowledge Production in the Early Modern Iberian Worlds. An Introduction For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit:  http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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by Danwerth, Otto; Albani, Benedetta; Duve, Thomas
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Global Perspectives on Legal History - Volume 12 Normatividades e instituciones eclesiásticas en el virreinato del Perú, siglos XVI–XIX Otto Danwerth, Benedetta Albani, Thomas Duve (eds.) Ecclesiastical institutions and actors were essential for the formation of normative orders in early modern Ibero-America. In a series of seminars, organised by the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Mexico City, Lima, Bogotá and São Paulo, scholars from different disciplines presented...
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 05 Roger Berkowitz The Aristocratic Way of Punishment For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 02 Alessandro Somma "La parabola della cittadinanza" For more articles and unrestricted open access to the entire issue of this magazine visit: http://www.rg-rechtsgeschichte.de/
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Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History No. 28 Christian Kullick »Lotteriefieber« und legislative Reaktionen: Die Reichsstadt Frankfurt in den 1770er und 1780er Jahren [»Lottery Fever« and Legislative Responses: The Imperial City of Frankfurtin the 1770s and 1780s] Abstract :  The term »lottery fever« describes an extraordinary spread of lotteries in numerous German territories during the 1770s and 1780s. The most important types of...
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Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2022-22 Derecho de Patronato / Right of Patronage (DCH) Alejandro González-Varas Spanish Abstract : Este trabajo analiza cómo se desarrolló el derecho de patronato en los territorios españoles de ultramar durante la temprana edad moderna. Se pondrá particular énfasis en subrayar aquellos aspectos en los que el derecho de patronato ibérico y el indiano mostraron diferencias. Se comenzará ofreciendo una...
Topics: Right of Patronage, Canon Law, derecho indiano (law in early modern Spanish America), historical...
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory Research Paper Series No. 2022-16 Legal History as a History of the Translation of Knowledge of Normativity Thomas Duve In the last few years, the research at the Department “Historical Regimes of Normativity” at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory has increasingly been guided by two conceptual ideas: the analysis of “legal history as a history of the translation of knowledge of normativity” and the...
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Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2016-02 Convivencia: Reflections About its 'Kulturbedeutung' and Rereading the Normative Histories of Living Together Raja Sakrani (ed.) This paper covers a wide range of questions from the nearly inflationary use of the word Convivencia including the speeches of the Pope, the motto of a cultural capital in Europe, the intensive search for communal semantics in a time of heavy conflicts and bloody realities: all this can...
Topics: Convivencia: Myth and Methodology, Otherness and the figure of dhimmi, “constitution” of...
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Research Paper Series No. 2015-05 Criminalidad De Menores Y Sistema Penal (Latinoamérica, 1890-1950): Las Agendas Y Los Métodos En La Historiografía Regional Reciente (Child's Criminality and Penal System (Latin America, 1890-1950): The Agenda and the Methods in the Regional Recent Historiography) José Daniel Cesano (ed.) The present article proposes to analyze the principal trends of the Latin-American recent historiography with regard to the...
Topics: Child’s criminality, historiography, methods, Positivism, Latin America